VDH deluxe soap and olive oil experiment...

[JetsMets#1fan]

Long story short, I opened the pantry saw a bottle of olive oil and for some reason the first thing that popped in my head was "add it to the vdh soap" thinking it'd be good for the skin.

On my way to the bathroom to get the soap I saw my body wash, a paraben free shea butter & oatmeal joint that smells and feels really good... So I thought "add that as well."

I mean, what's the worse that could happen? You ruin a $1.50 puck of soap...

Well, I poured about a spoonful of olive oil and about 4 spoons of the body wash in a cup and stirred them pretty good, then I melted the soap in the microwave, took it out and poured my olive oil/shea butter concoction on it; stirred it pretty good until the -new- color of the soap was even, let it harden and boom, I got me a custom soap! Lol...

By doing this I changed the dreaded -pinkish- color of the vdh soap to a sand like color which is pretty cool and I also change the scent of the soap to be a lot more like, yup, you guessed it, shea butter.

I didn't need to shave tonight but I did anyways just to try it out and the latherability of the soap remains unchanged, the smell is better, subjectively speaking of course, and btw I didn't hate the smell of the soap to begin with, and the lather feels much slicker than before.

My shave was pretty good as usual and my skin feels good as well, so I think I "enhanced" the soap.

Was it ok for me to do this? Why or why not? Any other possible experiment ingredients out there? This is the 2nd puck I melt, the first one I sprayed some cologne on it and that was it.

Thanks.

 

[BladeDE40]

I have a feeling that unsaponified olive oil will kill your lather, but do let us know how it turns out.

 

[MrDentini]

I agree with BaldeDE40, you've oversaturated your soap, but if you could lather anyway, then it's ok.
Is it plain "Olive Oil" or "Extra Virgin Olive Oil"? The second being too acid to be any good in a soap (but good to eat).
Next time you could try to enhance the soap using only pure shea butter

 

[JetsMets#1fan]

I have a feeling that unsaponified olive oil will kill your lather, but do let us know how it turns out.

I didn't need to shave tonight but I did anyways just to try it out and the latherability of the soap remains unchanged, the smell is better, subjectively speaking of course, and btw I didn't hate the smell of the soap to begin with, and the lather feels much slicker than before.

I agree with BaldeDE40, you've oversaturated your soap, but if you could lather anyway, then it's ok.
Is it plain "Olive Oil" or "Extra Virgin Olive Oil"? The second being too acid to be any good in a soap (but good to eat).
Next time you could try to enhance the soap using only pure shea butter

Its extra virgin olive oil. Thanks for the tips, esp the shea butter tip, my wife has some of that but it's a very minor quantity, might have to experiment with it anyways, lol.

 

[kingfisher]

This should be posted in the "Post all your VDH experiments here" thread. Do a search and you'll find it. It's an epic thread, and stuff like this can keep it going.

 

[Threeme2189]

I don't think a spoon of olive oil will make a puck of soap "unlatherable".
Tell us how it turned out!

 

[JetsMets#1fan]

This should be posted in the "Post all your VDH experiments here" thread. Do a search and you'll find it. It's an epic thread, and stuff like this can keep it going.

Found it, thanks... mods, delete this thread if you want.

I don't think a spoon of olive oil will make a puck of soap "unlatherable".
Tell us how it turned out!

 

[SliceOfLife]

I agree with BaldeDE40, you've oversaturated your soap, but if you could lather anyway, then it's ok.
Is it plain "Olive Oil" or "Extra Virgin Olive Oil"? The second being too acid to be any good in a soap (but good to eat).
Next time you could try to enhance the soap using only pure shea butter

Extra Virgin actually means (over here anyway) that it has <~1% FFA. There's an "Understanding" that it means some other stuff, but I believe the only REQUIREMENT our FDA puts on selling something as Extra Virgin is the FFA cap. So "pure" olive oil, while not necessarily more acidic, has the potential to be so. Neither is really acidic though. And since FFA are formed in olive oil through the use of low quality or old fruit or processing methods that cause cell breakdown prior to extraction... Extra Virgin should on average be less acidic.